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The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

THE Victorian and indeed Australian breeding industry avoided international catastrophe on Wednesday as the Federal Court ruled against the introduction of artificial insemination practices in the ...

Bosses at Betfair are weighing up their options after a crushing defeat in the Federal Court over Racing NSW's right to charge a turnover based product fee. Three Federal Court judges, headed up by...

Racing NSW has failed in its defence of the Federal Court case brought against it by bookmaking firm Sportsbet. Judge Nye Perram held that the 1.5% of turnover race fields levy was not validly char...

More money to the lawyers...Racing NSW has knocked back 'compromise' pleas from Sportsbet and Betfair despite the 'minor' defeat of seeing the corp bookie and the betting exchange win the right to ...

Racing NSW has filed an appeal against the Federal Court's decision that it had to refund $2.1 million in race fields fees to corporate bookmaker Sportsbet.Justice Nye Perram's judgment in the Fede...

Racing NSW has filed an appeal against the Federal Court's decision that it had to refund $2.1 million in race fields fees to corporate bookmaker Sportsbet.Justice Nye Perram's judgment in the Fede...